Consultancy Services
Consultancy Services
Transforming Teacher Preparation
US PREP offers individual consultancy services for those needing a la carte support. The US PREP staff will customize a services & support plan for your team within each quality objective area. Read about each Quality Objective area below to view example consultancy services then complete the form to get started!
- Provide support in identifying a pre-service teacher evaluation framework that outlines clear competencies/practices.
- Provide training in norming on the teacher evaluation framework to ensure all teacher preparation stakeholders have a clear and coherent vision of effective teaching.
- Design performance assessment processes to support candidates in receiving high-quality feedback and coaching.
- Redesign methods coursework to include the teaching and assessment of K-12 core content and pedagogy, and include practice-based opportunities for teacher candidates.
- Design performance gates and processes, aligned with the student teaching evaluation framework, to monitor teacher candidates’ progress throughout the program. Systematize and align performance intervention protocols to performance gates.
- Develop a clear intervention protocol and clearly document the process in the student teaching handbooks.
- Scaling and sustaining quality preparation across all programs and pathways.
- Design sustainable structures that allow teacher preparation faculty to utilize data for the purpose of continuous improvement.
- Develop and/or enhance data planning, analysis, and usage.
- Support the development of data governance structures and protocols that enhance the analysis, planning, and execution of decisions made based on data.
- Develop clear job descriptions for all teacher preparation program leaders—program director, site coordinator, and mentor teachers—to ensure that program leaders have clear roles and responsibilities for supporting teacher candidate development.
- Provide training to key people (i.e. teacher preparation program leaders, program directors, site coordinators) to ensure that the partnership and program are operating effectively.
- Provide training to TPPs and school leaders to ensure mentor teacher trainings equip mentors with best practices for coaching.
- Provide training to student teaching supervisors in order to develop inter-rater reliability on the student teaching evaluation rubric and build their capacity to formally and informally coach teacher candidates.
- Strengthen TPP Teacher Educator Effectiveness through the following:
- Provide training to TPPs on teacher educator pedagogies
- Develop tools/resources for teacher educator feedback measures
- Change management and communication tools for ensuring launch and execution against project plan goals and initiatives.
- Strengthen district partnerships through the development of MOUs and quarterly shared governance meetings (which will include opportunities to develop sustainable structures for mentor teacher selection and training).
- Strengthen university-school partnerships through sustainable shared governance meetings/protocols which include opportunities for:
- TPP leaders to become knowledgeable about the workforce needs of the school partners.
- Partners to share program data (i.e. candidates’ observation and student achievement data, and make improvements to program coursework, mentoring, recruitment processes, and refine agreement.
- Partners to review summative assessment program data and set annual program priorities.
- Partners to select mentors based on demonstrated success with students and exhibited leadership qualities and skills.
